Talk:Geographical bias on Wikipedia

Self-refs and other "unreliable" sources

These my give some hints how to expand the article. I am surprized this article is misssing from Wikipedia despite the subject being talked about many times on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lembit Staan (talk • contribs) 23:15, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:Geographic imbalance
• Task force/Recommendations/Local Language
• Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features)
• WP:LOCAL
• Wikipedia:Systemic bias
• Template:Globalize
• Template:Geographical imbalance
• Template:Over-coverage
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Geography (it looks like the subproject is low on activity)

  Quote: "As of March 11, 2011, there are 1,200,616 geolocated points in English Wikipedia. 1,088,292 (90.64%) are located in the Northern Hemisphere, 112,324 (9.36%) in the Southern one"

• Wikipedia:List of missing Africa topics
• Wikipedia:List of missing Middle Eastern topics
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-04-26/Community view: "It's time we look past Women in Red to counter systemic bias" by user:Indy beetle
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-07-13/WikiProject report: "WikiProject Years" by user:Cryptic C62: talks about geobias as well
• Geographically densest Wikipedia coverage (Data from Wikipedia-World as of the March 2011 database dump)

Relevance of city light map?

I understand that it's similar, but I don't see why that map should go on this page. This article has nothing to do with light. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 21:19, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

It has to do with population density and technological advanceness, but I am not going to sweat over this. There was some source which linked wikipedians' density with internet access and I thought city lights is a good approximation of this correlation. Self-RevertedLembit Staan (talk) 23:35, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Available sources

Has anyone done a study correlating Wikipedia's geographical coverage with available reliable sources? If there is no citeable source we cannot create an article. In this regard, how much is Wikipedia a proxy for availability of sources? · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 09:38, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Zheng et al. (2023) found a statistically significant association between being cited on the English Wikipedia and an academic source originating from Anglosphere, among English-language academic publications. Any academic discussion of 'reliable sources' and inequalities of representation on Wikipedia will of course also be critical of the concept of 'reliable sources' itself and its ideological underpinnings.

• Zheng, X., Chen, J., Yan, E., & Ni, C. (2023). Gender and country biases in Wikipedia citations to scholarly publications. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 74(2), 219–233. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24723

~ F4U (talk • they/it) 17:28, 31 October 2024 (UTC)